Dr David Bennett

Theologian Scholar & Postdoc Fellow, Co-Founder of Augustinian Resemblances @OU_TheoReligion @UniofOxford 🐝🌈
Author @TandTClark @Zondervan @TyndaleHouse

[Dr David Bennett @DavidACBennett]

Seven years — St Andrews to Oxford — distilled into 110,000 words. Queering the queer in Contemporary Theology…. Not just the first systematic theology from a gay celibate (Side B) perspective but the first ever treatment from patristics through to modern theology of gay desire.

[Dr David Bennett @DavidACBennett]

@ClaireMacLeod42 @BlackfriarsOx @OU_TheoReligion @PuseyHouse @PuseyHouseLib @LasCasasOx @Routledge_Phil @routledgebooks Sorry to miss this.

[Matthew Wilcoxen @mattwilcoxen]

Died 10 years ago today. 😢

[Dr David Bennett @DavidACBennett]

‘… good theologians are—among other things—those formed by graces which are the troubling, eschatological gifts of the Holy Spirit.‘ — John Webster, The Culture of Theology

[Dr David Bennett @DavidACBennett]

‘Only when a man has been cleansed from the shame of his evil, and has returned to his natural beauty, and the original form of the Royal Image has been restored in him, is it possible for him to approach the Paraclete.' —On The Holy Spirit, St Basil the Great

[Dr David Bennett @DavidACBennett]

A joy to be part of an episode of #uncommonground curated carefully by @JusBrierley to bring out the best of a better conversation and better disagreement in the LGBTQI+/SSA Christian world and for the church. Coming in 5 weeks with @VinesMatthew #lgbtqinchrist #faithfullylgbtq

[Dr David Bennett @DavidACBennett]

@Make_it_Raines Praying.

[Dr David Bennett @DavidACBennett]

3/3 miss is the mercy their lives all hang by, stuck in the lovelessness that cannot cope with or see the complexity of another’s story or the depth of God’s nature and Gospel. The most tragic toxin and forfeit of grace is not sexual failure, but pride and self-righteousness.

[Dr David Bennett @DavidACBennett]

1/3 As a celibate gay Christian myself, I want to call us, as we process and lament the news about Sam Allberry, to hold it alongside this good news of the potentiality of the Orthodox world’s first same-sex attracted saint, St Seraphim Rose.

[Dr David Bennett @DavidACBennett]

2/3 As we watch the scribes and Pharisees (reformed, conservative etc), Sadducees (progressive, revisionists), and teachers (preachers and commentators) of our day throw down their judgments, let us watch Jesus enter, saying ‘he without sin cast the first stone.’ What they all…

[University of Oxford @UniofOxford]

Keble Chapel turns 150 years old today!

📷 | @KebleOxford

#OnThisDay

[Dr David Bennett @DavidACBennett]

Wonderful to begin tutoring @kebleoxford this term for Christian Ethics, and to land back for my 13th year of living in Oxford. #spring #sanctus #keble

[Dr David Bennett @DavidACBennett]

So glad a bad bill did not pass in the @UKHouseofLords ... a society must make decisions not off political swings, but off sound reflection, not populist sentiment that is rushed and does not explore the full reality of death and dying from a thicker ethical foundation.

[Pusey House Library @PuseyHouseLib]

BOOK OF THE WEEK 🚨
This week it is… ‘The Reality of Assisted Dying: Understanding the Issues’

This important & timely collection of essays was selected because of the colloquium happening this Wednesday on assisted dying. Watch it live or catch up afterwards on YT @PuseyHouse

[Dr David Bennett @DavidACBennett]

Looks great... might try to make this.

[Philip Ziegler @pgziegler1]

Registration is open for the second Scottish Dogmatics Conference, June 10–12, 2026 at St Andrews. The theme is 'The God Who Speaks'. Great plenary speakers and a rich array of parallel sessions too.

Info and registration details can be found here:
https://t.co/XAeBHOz8iX

[Dr David Bennett @DavidACBennett]

“The Trinity is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man—and the dogma is the drama.” - The Whimsical Christian, Dorothy Sayers

[Dr David Bennett @DavidACBennett]

@AP_Davison @AnthropicAI So glad to introduce you 🙏

[Dr David Bennett @DavidACBennett]

Seven years — St Andrews to Oxford — distilled into 110,000 words. Queering the queer in Contemporary Theology…. Not just the first systematic theology from a gay celibate (Side B) perspective but the first ever treatment from patristics through to modern theology of gay desire.

[Dr David Bennett @DavidACBennett]

@AP_Davison @SMVOxford Wonderful to see.

[University of Oxford @UniofOxford]

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[Dr David Bennett @DavidACBennett]

O Lord – set my Affections on things above and
fill me with thy Grace, that I may adorn the
Doctrine of God my Saviour in all things.
(William Wilberforce, 8 May 1796, Clapham)